- Posted by karthik on May 22, 2009
Just came across this announcement from the MS SharePoint team regarding MOSS Service Pack 2. If you have installed this or are planning on installing this, please be aware of the bug that is currently awaiting a hotfix.
"During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users. "
Apparently, the install of MOSS SP2 will turn a fully licensed version of MOSS into a "trial version". This issue affects ONLY MOSS SP2 and NOT WSS 3.0 SP2 for obvious reasons.
Of all things they could have messed up, they introduced a bug that converted paying customers into non-paying customers AFTER the product has already been paid for :) Funny, isn't it!
Check for a supported hotfix to be released soon here.
Happy Long Weekend everyone! Drive safe and enjoy the time off...
- Posted by karthik on May 4, 2009
Straight from the horse's mouth! Release information and download links for SP2 straight from MSDN.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
Key Things to Note:
Installation Steps
To keep all the files in a SharePoint installation up-to-date, the following packages need to be applied on all servers in the farm. Service Pack 2 contains all fixes released through February of this year, so customers can install it directly on RTM build of the products.
- Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack (if applicable)
- Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack (if applicable)
After applying the preceding updates, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard or "psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b -wait” in command line. This needs to be done on every server in the farm with SharePoint installed. The version of content databases should be 12.0.0.6421 after successfully applying these updates.
Here is a growing list of KB articles on the Service Pack 2 release for MOSS/WSS 3.0. All credits to Sharepoint Support!
Thanks!
- Posted by karthik on May 2, 2009
I could not resist mentioning that :) I know it is juvenile to flaunt that but you can see my face for all of 2 seconds! Woo-hoo! 
You can also see Trey from the facepalm team oohing and aahing ;)
Check out the video from Coder4Charities 2009 or through this direct link to vimeo
Enjoy!